a e dub. a e dub. watching @aewontv.bsky.social with @failnaut.bsky.social, @lodis88.bsky.social, and @megsox.bsky.social :D

this is why I still mask everywhere I go. it hasn't gone the fuck away, and I while the risk of death is lower, this is infinitely worse imo.

truly stunning snapshot of a gerrymander. davidson is the county of nashville, chopped up into, i think, four pieces in four districts to prevent its residents from electing democrats

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

The boring-ass take is that special elections are weird and have totally different turnout patterns than 2026 will so don't tell us a lot one way or the other about how it will go

it claims there's an expected return of 11:1 but we know goddamn well it won't actually benefit the very public that paid for this with taxes.

Arts funding exists in Tasmania actually. You just need to be Dave Grohl. Simple mistake we've all been making. "The state government, Treasurer Eric Abetz said, “helped facilitate” the show with a $500,000 contribution" pulsetasmania.com.au/news/foo-fig... #politas

It's said that there are no "moral victories" in elections. Given how deeply gerrymandered Nashville is, to crack a Democratic leaning city between the districts, and how close TN-7 is after it went +22 to Trump? Nope. This as a moral victory.

Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported. I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.

I love that she landed between the trash can and the toilet, ah memories

NYT discovering what everyone with a grandparent on the wrong side of sundown has discovered- if you start trying to cover up for the loss of filter, that soon becomes the only job

Horny nihilist media critics/radical centrist pundits: "whatever else you think of her, Olivia Nuzzi is a brilliant prose stylist" Olivia Nuzzi:

very cool shit right here. but especially the word cloud lol wish I'd seen this type of thing before I killed my invite-days-old account tho. that'd be super interesting to see. Check out your 2025 Bluesky Harvest from @anisota.net! anisota.net/harvest/

Hello moths, The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾 See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.

Fascinating to watch so many of the most prominent Dems continue to refuse to get a fucking clue on what every piece of actual evidence is screaming at them Which is that if they don’t shape up real goddamn fast where this is concerned they can say goodbye to basically a whole generation of voters

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

lmfao the bathroom situation is out of control

If we tell them it's a flood zone or likely to burn down in wildfires, it hurts sales 🤪

I guarantee them adding chatgpt is a last ditch effort to reduce the operating costs of customer service staff, and brute force sales via chatgpt itself, because this is what they're battling. lmaooooii

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

The Oklahoma senator who sponsored a new law to curtail citizen initiatives said he wants to “give more Oklahomans, not just the urban elites in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, a say in what questions qualify for the ballot.”

@emmagf.bsky.social on X: "Ricky Patel, the Special Agent in Charge at Homeland Security Investigations, called Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, to apologize after there was a confrontation between protesters and the police in Manhattan today, according to a person familiar with the matter."

Feds: We’re gunna do a show of force on NYC to put those commies in their place 😈 The commies: *fucks their whole shit up* NYPD: *shows up to stop that* The commies: *fucks their shit up too* Feds: Sorry, NYPD ☹️ won’t happen again ☹️

For example, one thing that Sen Schiff has done to stand up to attacks on his people is voting to confirm several Trump judges and members of his administration, as recently as an AL district judge on 10/24/25. “But amanda how is that standing up to attacks on his people” he does it while frowning

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the fact that Behn's not going to underperform vs expectations pretty much lights a lot of conventional wisdom about How We Must Run Moderates In Red Districts on fire

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

Similar to punching Nazis, this tactic is less about changing anything material and more about preventing these fools from projecting strength and security to the kind of scared sniveling right wing curious people desperate for Big Daddy to save them

the entire premise of the modern social order is that smart, talented, and creative people are a dime a dozen — and, usually, more trouble than they're worth — but a sex pest or serial rapist is a special kind of person, the protagonist of reality, an elite member of an elite club

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

This article cites several law schools that have closed and one that has never existed. Other than that, the presumably generative AI did a fine job of it

Therefore, they feel compelled to sympathize with men who they perceive as harmed for the same behavior they themselves have participated in.

I’m gonna draw a controversial conclusion from this, but it’s one I don’t think is actually wrong. The reason “cancellation” for sex pest reasons actually boosts careers is that a majority of men identify sympathetically with these men. I think a majority of men have violated women’s boundaries.

So, real talk. The imposter syndrome never really goes away either, it's like an old chronic injury that flares up again and gets really bad at certain times of the year, or if you've strained yourself. It creeps back when you don't expect it, and it's hard not to hear that little voice get louder.

"Weeks of watching Florida insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan flail around like a toddler trying to teach calculus should serve as a warning about the perils of crowdsourcing legal research to literal randos on the internet. *But it won’t.*" — @lizdye.bsky.social

By the way, note that the description of Biden as being "in obvious mental decline" was left in the speech, while the description of Trump as the "most openly corrupt president in American history" was removed:

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this is how I learned @defunctland.bsky.social was on bsky lol

In the joint CPSC- @neorsd.org museum, the grease ball exhibit is right next to the "turkeys used in demonstrations" exhibit and the visitation numbers are exceptional.

Carve it into the shape of a turkey and we'll put it in an overfilled deep fryer.

[@defunctland.bsky.social voice] In 2025, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a government agency mostly known for exploding turkeys, announced the existence of a secret joint museum built with a regional sewer district from Northeast Ohio...

ICYMI last 6 yrs I’ve run a vape/CBD shop in TX. Been fucked all year by the state/feds & they’re only getting started. I’m in trade school & also currently taking care of my mom’s cats while she recovers from hip replacement & getting dad settled in memory care. It’s a lot. Plz help/share 🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤

I want white women to want better for themselves. You don't have to shag a catcher's mitt

It’s a probability machine that operates like a MUCH simpler version of AI but it doesn’t use LLMs in any way. The code is available on that page if you wanna check it out.

To be clear there is no AI in this. Perchance has AI “features” which i really hate, but it’s also the only site that has these kind of powerful randomization tools. All the text generated by my tool is written by me and design to be smashed together into funny outcomes.

I'm having way too much fun with this. It now generates random proper nouns for names and the random taglines have gotten much more silly. Go try it out and send me your funniest results! perchance.org/scifi-shell-...